Abstract:
With autonomous vehicles in the early phases of road testing, we can surely expect them
on the road in a few years. But the existence of a mixed tra c with human-driven vehicles
will be inevitable for a long time after the introduction of autonomous vehicles and the
rami cations of such a tra c are hard to foresee. But by creating a simulation which
involves both kinds of vehicles, we can study their behavior and analyze the e ect the
autonomous vehicles has on the human-driven vehicular tra c. Using SUMO, which is a
microscopic tra c simulator, the tra c of autonomous vehicles can be replicated by using
machine generated vehicles whose speed and position in each simulation step is controlled
by SUMO. This thesis tries to interface SUMO and Unity, a powerful cross-platform game
engine, by using the Tra c Control Interface (TraCI) protocol and in doing so, a car was
generated in Unity which can be human controlled and driven in the same track as the
machine generated vehicles. This paper reports the details of this co-simulation using a real
life test track which facilitates a comprehensive analysis of interactions between the vehicles
in the real world.
